Any argument about the merits of a 10 -15 - 20 - 25 - 30 year old car Vs a new hybrid or plug in hybrid is meaningless. Outside the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the population that likes to mess with cars and considers the $200x challenge the holy grail of motorsport then old cars are a) unreliable b) expensive to get fixed c) not safe d) not desirable. It's hard to argue with that for most people.
Heck, having spent a large part of my youth stitching two totaled cars together to build one, building race cars, spending lunch hours porting cylinder heads, building exhausts and rebuilding engines etc when the boss wasn't looking, traipsing around the country autocrossing etc etc you know, normal GRM reader behavior I now find myself calling the dealer to see what an oil change will cost, no E36 M3. To 'most' people cars are utility devices that also need to meet pamper to their perceived needs and image. Based on that GM will sell all the Volts they can build, at least for the first year until the new hotness comes along from some one else.
Also just because someone's total family annual income is close to the price of a Volt means squat. If cars had to conform to that then BMW, Merc, Porsche, Lincoln, Caddy etc etc would never sell a thing and there would be no cheap E30's for people to plat with 20 years down the line.
GRM isn't the average buying public.
